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Had a Wonderful time with Eric and his Viewers!
Thank You so Much!
November 6th, 2017.
My True Roots Celebrates her 4th Blogiversary!
My True Roots Turns 4!
LORD, I PrAiSe YOU! I Thank You for Guiding Me : for Holding Me: for keeping me in your Hands : All Day and All Night : I lie my Faith in nothing but You: above all else,You are my STrengTh! With You all This is Possible. Thank You for that "Quiet Place"......
I THANK YOU!
To: My Entire Family...There are so many that take my calls, my email, my text at any Given hour. You all know who you Are. I'm Grateful for you all taking time to help me. Thank you for all your Prayers & Encouragement. Please know that every Word and Picture I place on my Blog is because you have Contributed.
I don't Do My True Roots alone.
You, My Readers the most faithful of them ALL, have stuck by me - encouraged me - prompted me - gave me criticism when needed - advised, taking my Hand and Walking with Me all the way through.
I Thank YOU!
Daddie and Mom
James E. Lewis 1918 - Today; 8 years ago.
Tinnie L. Miles Lewis 1923 - November - 2008
My Sweet November
I do this Work of Recording our Family History and Genealogy because of them. They unashamedly taught me so many lessons that will carry me through Life. They poured so many stories and documents from the Ancestors onto me. I was the Vessel. I'm Grateful that they took the time to answer so many Questions from my inquisitive mostly nosey self. Always questioning this and that. I wouldn't have half of what I can write to you if it wasn't for them.
Thank You Everyone!
Thanks for stopping over and reading about my Family History for the last 4 years. It's Very Much Appreciated! Thanks for all your Comments and NoTe's! and simply taking the time. Please keep coming by as I grow. It's been a Very Great 4 years with all your Support.
Truly Blessed!
Andrew J. Sweigard - My Living DNA - Germany
Andrew J. Sweigard
My 2nd Great Grandfather
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| Andrew J. Sweigard - Death Certificate |
My True Roots has German Roots. Strong German Roots.
There is a reason for me blogging about my German and Irish Roots. Usually you see me writing on my African American Lineage.
On February 27th I took an additional new DNA test, my 4th all in the name of Research, called Living DNA. Results take 10-12 weeks, it's almost time!
It gives you personalization of your DNA on 80 World Regions including 21 in Britain & Ireland.
I wanted to see another view of estimates on my European roots and learn the different regions with a visual and see if I can maybe trace my own research to a specific location that they provide.
This is were Grandfather Andrew comes in at so you can see how my German roots fits in with myself and my DNA.
There is a German Project on Living DNA. I don't qualify as all my 4 Grandparents were born in the United States on my Mother's line.
BIO
Andrew is my 2nd Great Grandfather.
Born: October 28, 1829.
Died: August 14th, 1914.
1880 - 1900 - 1910 Census's I have for him.
Halifax, Pa.
His Father was David Sweigard.
His Mother was Anna Cassel.
He had a farm in Powell's Valley, Pa.
Andrew's Will was given to me by my Cousin Cheryl.
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| Grandfather Andrew Sweigard Will Page 1 of 2. |
Cheryl's Father and Mom are 1st Cousins. They are the Grandchildren of Ephraim Sweigard his Father was Andrew.
I'm appreciative and thankful for Cousin Cheryl giving me all these photos and documents on our Sweigard line. Mom didn't have this information. Cheryl gave me a great start!
There is more to blog and share with you later.
I have yet to visit Halifax, Pa. I'm going to be overwhelmed, but I look forward to taking it all in and sharing that with you all too.
This is just a taste.
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| Sweigard Files |
How I met Cousin Cheryl ....
she was friends with my friend. I saw her name mentioned in a thread on Facebook. I said OiO! How ironic?
I asked our common friend Do you know Cheryl personally? She said yes. She was my best friend in High School. I said, are her Parents still living? She said yes! I jumped! No way! I said.
She said YES! I talked to her and she wants to call you! I yelled and tried to breathe and calm myself down.
I remember Cheryl telling me the 1st time we talked. She kept asking her friend excitedly, How is she related to me!? How is she related to me! I gotta know!
That is how me and Cousin Cheryl met over Facebook. We were like giddy school kids. My Mom finally when to visit her and more Cousins for the first time and exchanged stories.
This blog piece is for her and in Remembrance to her Daddy who passed. Cheryl was able to share the knowledge and research on to me. I'm so glad he had a interest in family and history and his work was able to be passed on. He passed the torch and now our Sweigard line continues to be Living History.
This is what me and Momma's DNA tells us.
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| My Momma's German Irish and British - 23&Me |
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| Me - True's German Irish and British - 23&Me |
If there are any Genetic Genealogists out there who would like to take a stab at analyzing this German Chocolate Girl's Results when they come in June, give me a holla!
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Andrew J. Sweigard Tree
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| My 5th Great Grandfather John Peter Schweigart (Sweigard) was supposedly to have Came to America in 1725 |
Genealogical Sketch
Clara Dixon Simmons - Where is my Clara Simmons Death Certificate?
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| Clara Dixon Simmons |
My True Roots is hoping this will be a Random Act of Kindness.
I hope they have a Story to tell about Ms. Clara!
I have a Clara Ivery Simmons in my Family Tree. Her maiden name has Issues.
Dixon is not one of them. I used this Death Certificate to rule out a lot of Questions I had in the beginning when searching for my Clara Ivery Simmons.
I found one person searching for Mrs. Clara on Ancestry and I'm awaiting their reply if they need this death certificate for their Records.
In Alabama they look like this online at Ancestry.
I was also able to click the "Find Others" who are researching to see who all had Ms. Clara in their Tree.
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| Clara Dixon Simmons |
My Clara Ivery Simmons Death Certificate still remains to be seen. It's still on my List of to Do Things for my next trip to Alabama Department of Archives & History .
I ordered these when Suzette Cook was doing them for 5 dollars back in the day. I asked her to send it along with others I was ordering. What the heck, I was a newbie and knew one day it would be for me or someone else in the long run.
I see the person knows it exists but they don't have the detail like this Death Certificate shows, unless they have it in their records and not on their online tree.
Either way, I hope this helps someone in their Quest for Family History.
I'll be glad to return this Ordered Copy to a Family Member.
Hopefully there will be a follow up story one day for both Clara's.
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Photo with No Names
Please Contact me if you have any information.
This was left to me by my Father.
Carolina Girl Genealogy: Tuesday's Tip~Gettin' By With Help From Our Friend...
Carolina Girl Genealogy: Tuesday's Tip~Gettin' By With Help From Our Friend...:
Today's Tips come from True Lewis, author of Notes to Myself . I was just recently admitted to the National Society Daughters of ...
